Improvement in hair-curlers



n. I. HOPPER. HAm-'cU-BLER.

Mmm "C10-mmm WASHINGTON. D. C.

UNITED STATES.

PATENT OFFICEc ROBERT I. HOPPER, OF PATERSON, VNEW' JERSEY. l

IMPROVEMENT IN HAIR-CURLERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 172,855, dated February1,1876; application filed November 11, 1875.

To all 'whom it may concern Be it known that I, ROBERT I. HOPPER, ofPaterson, in the county of Union and State of New Jersey, have inventedan Improved Device for Curling. Hair, of which the following is aspeciiication:

My invention relates to devices used by ladies and children for-curlingtheir hair; and it consists in a novel construction, combination, andarrangement of part-s, which have for their object to produce a neat,simple, substantial, and easilymanipulated. device, as will be fullyhereafter set forth.

Figure l represents two sectional views of my improved device forcurling the hair. Fig. 2 shows the manner in which the same ismanipulated, and Fig. 3 shows the manner in which the hair is retainedon the curler.

The device consists of a tube, A, of any required length, composed ofany suitable light material, as gatta-percha, rubber, wood, Ste. At oneextremity of this tube a slot or rectangular hole, a, is cut transverseto the axis ot' the tube, andthe end of the tube is slit or sawedthrough, so as to make a fissure or opening, b, into the slot or hole aat about its middle. This slot or hole is for the reception andretention otan elastic band, B,"which is inserted thereinthrougliMdiecutnorissure.`

I have shown inthe annexed'drawing an ordinary circular rubberv band,but I do not conne myself to this sha-pe.

The other extremity of the tube has a nick, c, cut therein, which is forreceiving and retaining the elastic band when the device is in use. l l

In using my device the hair should be moistened with water, and thenvuniformly coiled around the tube, commencing at the roots of the hair,land proceeding toward the ends. Having covered the tube or coiledthereon a sufficient length of hair, the elastic band is to be stretchedover the tube and inserted in the nick c, where it will be securelyheld.`

The band will, after considerable use, become decomposed by the oil usedon the hair or exudiug therefrom, and eventually break,

when it can be readily removed and replaced ROBERT I. HOPPER. Witnesses:

E. H. J oENsoN, RoBT. L. A. CLARKE.

